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• 927 – Death of Simeon I the Great, the first Bulgarian to be recognized as Emperor.
• 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
• 1153 – Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
• 1199 – John is crowned King of England.
• 1644 – Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.
• 1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
• 1798 – The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.
• 1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeats the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the northeastern Swiss Plateau because of the town's location at the junction of seven cross-roads.
• 1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
• 1849 – The Great Hall of Euston station in London is opened.
• 1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.
• 1863 – American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
• 1874 – The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
• 1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
• 1896 – The F4-strength 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 US dollars).
• 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
• 1907 – Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco.
• 1908 – Khilafat Day – the day of establishment of Khilafat in Islam Ahmadiyya.
• 1917 – Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
• 1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
• 1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
• 1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
• 1933 – New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
• 1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
• 1933 – The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago.
• 1935 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
• 1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
• 1940 – World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
• 1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
• 1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
• 1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
• 1958 – The F-4 Phantom II makes its first flight.
• 1960 – In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
• 1962 – The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
• 1967 – Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
• 1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
• 1968 – The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sébastien Charléty.
• 1968 – Major League Baseball's National League awards Montreal the first franchise in Canada and the first franchise outside the United States. (the Montreal Expos)
• 1971 – The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
• 1975 – Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
• 1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
• 1986 – Dragon Quest, the game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, is released in Japan.
• 1995
  • In Culpeper, Virginia, the actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition.
  • The 7.0 Mw Neftegorsk earthquake shakes northern Sakhalin Island in Russia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 1,989 people dead and 750 injured.
• 1996 – First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
• 1997 – The unusual tornado outbreak in Jarrell, Texas.
• 1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Paula Jones can pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Bill Clinton while he is in office.
• 1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
• 2001 – Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
• 2006 – The 6.4 Mw Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.

Births[edit]

• 742 – Emperor Dezong of Tang (d. 805)
• 1332 – Ibn Khaldun, Tunisian historian and theologian (d. 1406)
• 1519 – Girolamo Mei, Italian historian and theorist (d. 1594)
• 1537 – Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg (d. 1604)
• 1576 – Caspar Schoppe, German author and scholar (d. 1649)
• 1584 – Michael Altenburg, German theologian and composer (d. 1640)
• 1601 – Antoine Daniel, French-Canadian missionary and saint (d. 1648)
• 1626 – William II, Prince of Orange (d. 1650)
• 1627 – Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1693)
• 1651 – Louis Antoine de Noailles, French cardinal (d. 1729)
• 1652 – Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine of Germany (d. 1722)
• 1738 – Nathaniel Gorham, American merchant and politician, 14th President of the Continental Congress (d. 1796)
• 1756 – Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (d. 1825)
• 1794 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1877)
• 1818 – Amelia Bloomer, American journalist and activist (d. 1894)
• 1819 – Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (d. 1910)
• 1820 – Mathilde Bonaparte, Italian-French daughter of Catharina of Württemberg (d. 1904)
• 1827 – Samuel F. Miller, American lawyer and politician (d. 1892)
• 1832 – Zenas Ferry Moody, American surveyor and politician, 7th Governor of Oregon (d. 1917)
• 1836 – Jay Gould, American businessman and financier (d. 1892)
• 1837 – Wild Bill Hickok, American police officer (d. 1876)
• 1850 – Thomas Neill Cream, Scottish-Canadian serial killer (d. 1892)
• 1860 – Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese politician, 7th President of Portugal (d. 1941)
• 1863 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer (d. 1921)
• 1867 – Arnold Bennett, English author and playwright (d. 1931)
• 1868 – Aleksa Šantić, Bosnian poet and author (d. 1924)
• 1871 – Georges Rouault, French painter and illustrator (d. 1958)
• 1875 – Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (d. 1942)
• 1876 – Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and author (d. 1945)
• 1876 – William Stanier, English engineer (d. 1965)
• 1878 – Anna Cervin, Swedish artist (d. 1972)
• 1879 – Karl Bühler, German-American linguist and psychologist (d. 1963)
• 1879 – Hans Lammers, German judge and politician (d. 1962)
• 1883 – Jessie Arms Botke, American painter (d. 1971)
• 1884 – Max Brod, Czech journalist, author, and composer (d. 1968)
• 1887 – Frank Woolley, English cricketer (d. 1978)
• 1888 – Louis Durey, French composer (d. 1979)
• 1891 – Claude Champagne, Canadian violinist, pianist, and composer (d. 1965)
• 1891 – Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and author (d. 1958)
• 1891 – Aage Redal, Danish actor (d. 1950)
• 1893 – Hermann Dörnemann, German super-centenarian (d. 2005)
• 1894 – Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author (d. 1961)
• 1894 – Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter (d. 1961)
• 1895 – Douglas Lloyd Campbell, Canadian educator and politician, 13th Premier of Manitoba (d. 1995)
• 1897 – John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
• 1897 – Dink Templeton, American rugby player and coach (d. 1962)
• 1899 – Johannes Türn, Estonian chess and draughts player (d. 1993)
• 1900 – Ethel Lang, English super-centenarian (d. 2015)
• 1900 – Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet and translator (d. 1933)
• 1902 – Fanny Godin, Belgian super-centenarian (d. 2014)
• 1904 – Chūhei Nambu, Japanese jumper and journalist (d. 1997)
• 1906 – Buddhadasa, Thai monk and philosopher (d. 1993)
• 1906 – Harry Hibbs, English footballer (d. 1984)
• 1906 – Antonio Rosario Mennonna, Italian bishop (d. 2009)
• 1907 – Nicolas Calas, Swiss-American poet and critic (d. 1988)
• 1907 – Rachel Carson, American biologist, environmentalist, and author (d. 1964)
• 1909 – Don Finlay, English hurdler and pilot (d. 1970)
• 1909 – Dolores Hope, American singer and philanthropist (d. 2011)
• 1911 – Hubert Humphrey, American journalist and politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (d. 1978)
• 1911 – Teddy Kollek, Hungarian-Israeli politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (d. 2007)
• 1911 – Vincent Price, American actor and singer (d. 1993)
• 1912 – John Cheever, American author and academic (d. 1982)
• 1912 – Sam Snead, American golfer and sportscaster (d. 2002)
• 1912 – Terry Moore, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1995)
• 1913 – Wols, German painter and photographer (d. 1951)
• 1915 – Ester Soré, Chilean singer-songwriter (d. 1996)
• 1915 – Herman Wouk, American sailor and author
• 1918 – Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese commander and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Japan
• 1919 – Emvin Cremona, Maltese artist (d. 1987)
• 1921 – Caryl Chessman, American criminal (d. 1960)
• 1921 – Bob Godfrey, Australian-English animator, director, and voice actor (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Otto Carius, German lieutenant and pharmacist (d. 2015)
• 1922 – Christopher Lee, English actor and singer (d. 2015)
• 1922 – John D. Vanderhoof, American banker and politician, 37th Governor of Colorado (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Henry Kissinger, German-American political scientist and politician, 56th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1923 – Sumner Redstone, American businessman and philanthropist
• 1924 – Ernest Ingenito, American murderer (d. 1995)
• 1924 – Jaime Lusinchi, Venezuelan physician and politician, President of Venezuela (d. 2014)
• 1924 – John Sumner, English-Australian director, founded the Melbourne Theatre Company (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Tony Hillerman, American journalist and author (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Jüri Randviir, Estonian chess player and journalist (d. 1996)
• 1927 – Harry Webster, English engineer (d. 2007)
• 1928 – Thea Musgrave, Scottish-American composer and educator
• 1930 – Simon Barrington-Ward, English bishop
• 1930 – John Barth, American author and academic
• 1930 – William S. Sessions, American civil servant and judge, 8th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• 1930 – Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer and educator (d. 2010)
• 1931 – John Chapple, English field marshal and politician, Governor of Gibraltar
• 1931 – Bernard Fresson, French actor (d. 2002)
• 1931 – Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress and producer (d. 2015)
• 1931 – Philip Kotler, American author and professor
• 1933 – Edward Samuel Rogers, Canadian businessman (d. 2008)
• 1933 – Manfred Sommer, Spanish author and illustrator (d. 2007)
• 1934 – Ray Daviault, Canadian-American baseball player
• 1934 – Harlan Ellison, American author and screenwriter
• 1935 – Daniel Colchico, American football player and coach (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Mal Evans, English manager and producer (d. 1976)
• 1935 – Ramsey Lewis, American pianist and composer
• 1935 – Lee Meriwether, American model and actress, Miss America 1955
• 1936 – Benjamin Bathurst, English admiral
• 1936 – Louis Gossett, Jr., American actor and producer
• 1936 – Marcel Masse, Canadian educator and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of National Defence (d. 2014)
• 1937 – Allan Carr, American playwright and producer (d. 1999)
• 1939 – Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns, English courtier and businessman
• 1939 – Yves Duhaime, Canadian captain and politician
• 1939 – Sokratis Kokkalis, Greek businessman
• 1939 – Gerald Ronson, English businessman and philanthropist
• 1939 – Don Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pozo-Seco Singers)
• 1940 – Mike Gibson, Australian journalist and sportscaster (d. 2015)
• 1940 – Zack Norman, American actor-producer-writer-musician-real estate developer
• 1942 – Lee Baca, American police officer
• 1942 – Piers Courage, English race car driver (d. 1970)
• 1942 – Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman, English accountant and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• 1942 – Robin Widdows, English race car driver
• 1943 – Cilla Black, English singer and actress (d. 2015)
• 1943 – Bruce Weitz, American actor
• 1944 – Chris Dodd, American lawyer and politician
• 1944 – Ingrid Roscoe, English historian and politician, Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire
• 1944 – Alain Souchon, French singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1945 – Bruce Cockburn, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Esquires and The Flying Circus)
• 1946 – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish bassist and composer (d. 2005)
• 1946 – John Williams, English motorcycle racer (d. 1978)
• 1947 – Felix Dennis, English poet and publisher, founded Dennis Publishing (d. 2014)
• 1947 – Marty Kristian, German-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The New Seekers)
• 1947 – Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer and coach
• 1947 – Riivo Sinijärv, Estonian politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1948 – Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant
• 1948 – Pete Sears, English bass player (Jefferson Starship, Moonalice, and Hot Tuna)
• 1948 – Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, American occultist and author (d. 2014)
• 1949 – Hugh Lowther, 8th Earl of Lonsdale, English politician
• 1949 – Christa Vahlensieck, German runner
• 1950 – Dee Dee Bridgewater, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1951 – Ana Belén, Spanish actress, singer, and director
• 1951 – John Conteh, English boxer
• 1954 – Pauline Hanson, Australian businesswoman and politician
• 1954 – Shahrdad Rohani, Iranian composer
• 1954 – Jackie Slater, American football player and coach
• 1955 – Eric Bischoff, American wrestler, manager, and producer
• 1955 – Richard Schiff, American actor, director, and producer
• 1955 – Ian Tracey, English organist and conductor
• 1956 – Cynthia McFadden, American journalist
• 1956 – Rosemary Squire, English producer and manager, co-founded Ambassador Theatre Group
• 1956 – Giuseppe Tornatore, Italian director and screenwriter
• 1957 – Dag Terje Andersen, Norwegian politician, Norwegian Minister of Labour
• 1957 – Nitin Gadkari, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Transport
• 1957 – Duncan Goodhew, English swimmer
• 1957 – Siouxsie Sioux, English singer-songwriter and producer (Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Creatures)
• 1958 – Nick Anstee, English accountant and politician, 682nd Lord Mayor of London
• 1958 – Neil Finn, New Zealand singer-songwriter and mandolin player (Split Enz, Crowded House, Finn Brothers, The Mullanes, 7 Worlds Collide, and Pajama Club)
• 1958 – Linnea Quigley, American actress and producer
• 1958 – Jesse Robredo, Filipino politician, 23rd Filipino Secretary of the Interior (d. 2012)
• 1960 – Gaston Therrien, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1961 – José Luíz Barbosa, Brazilian runner and coach
• 1961 – Peri Gilpin, American actress
• 1962 – Marcelino Bernal, Mexican footballer
• 1962 – Ray Borner, Australian basketball player
• 1962 – Steven Brill, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1962 – Anthony A. Hyman, Israeli-English biologist and academic
• 1962 – David Mundell, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1962 – Ravi Shastri, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1963 – Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Cuban pianist and composer
• 1964 – Adam Carolla, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1965 – Todd Bridges, American actor, director, and producer
• 1965 – Pat Cash, Australian-English tennis player and sportscaster
• 1966 – Heston Blumenthal, English chef and author
• 1967 – Paul Gascoigne, English footballer, coach, and manager
• 1967 – Eddie Harsch, Canadian-American keyboard player and bass player (The Black Crowes and The Detroit Cobras)
• 1967 – Eddie McClintock, American actor
• 1968 – Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player and coach
• 1968 – Rebekah Brooks, English journalist
• 1968 – Harun Erdenay, Turkish basketball player and coach
• 1968 – Frank Thomas, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1969 – Todd Hundley, American baseball player
• 1969 – Jeremy Mayfield, American race car driver
• 1969 – Dondre Whitfield, American actor
• 1970 – Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist
• 1970 – Tim Farron, English educator and politician
• 1970 – Joseph Fiennes, English actor
• 1970 – Cherry Pie Picache, Filipino actress and screenwriter
• 1971 – Mathew Batsiua, Nauruan politician
• 1971 – Paul Bettany, English actor
• 1971 – Wayne Carey, Australian footballer and coach
• 1971 – Kaur Kender, Estonian author
• 1971 – Lisa Lopes, American rapper, dancer, and actress (TLC) (d. 2002)
• 1971 – Lee Sharpe, English footballer
• 1971 – Sophie Walker, British politician, leader of the Women's Equality Party
• 1972 – Todd Demsey, American golfer
• 1972 – Antonio Freeman, American football player
• 1972 – Ivete Sangalo, Brazilian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (Banda Eva)
• 1973 – Jack McBrayer, American actor and comedian
• 1973 – Tana Umaga, New Zealand rugby player and coach
• 1974 – Skye Edwards, British singer-songwriter (Morcheeba)
• 1974 – Denise van Outen, English actress, singer, and television host
• 1974 – Derek Webb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Caedmon's Call)
• 1974 – Danny Wuerffel, American football player
• 1975 – Jadakiss, American rapper (The Lox)
• 1975 – André 3000, American rapper, producer, and actor (OutKast)
• 1975 – Michael Hussey, Australian cricketer
• 1975 – Jamie Oliver, English chef and author
• 1975 – Feryal Özel, Turkish astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
• 1976 – RJD2, American DJ and producer (Soul Position)
• 1976 – Marcel Fässler, Swiss race car driver
• 1977 – Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian high jumper
• 1977 – Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1978 – Adin Brown, American soccer player
• 1979 – Michael Buonauro, American author and illustrator (d. 2004)
• 1979 – Mile Sterjovski, Australian footballer
• 1980 – Craig Buntin, Canadian figure skater
• 1981 – Miloy, Angolan footballer
• 1981 – Marcelo Bonan. Brazilian footballer
• 1981 – Alina Cojocaru Romanian ballerina
• 1981 – Fivos Constantinou, Cypriot runner
• 1981 – Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer
• 1982 – Natalya, Canadian-American wrestler
• 1982 – Michael de Grussa, Australian singer-songwriter and pianist (The Kill Devil Hills)
• 1983 – Bobby Convey, American soccer player
• 1983 – Meelis Kanep, Estonian chess player
• 1984 – Blake Ahearn, American basketball player
• 1984 – Ryoko Mima, Japanese model and entertainer
• 1984 – Kalle Spjuth, Swedish bandy player
• 1985 – Chiang Chien-ming, Taiwanese baseball player
• 1985 – Roberto Soldado, Spanish footballer
• 1986 – Conor Cummins, Manx motorcycle racer
• 1986 – Timo Descamps, Belgian actor and singer
• 1986 – Bamba Fall, Senegalese basketball player
• 1986 – Lasse Schöne, Danish footballer
• 1987 – Gervinho, Ivorian footballer
• 1987 – Eric Kolelas, French-English actor and director
• 1987 – Bora Paçun, Turkish basketball player
• 1987 – Matt Prior, Australian rugby league player
• 1988 – Irina Davydova, Russian hurdler
• 1988 – Mari Pokinen, Estonian actress and singer
• 1988 – Allyn Rose, American model and volleyball player, Miss Maryland USA 2011
• 1988 – Tyler Sash, American football player (d. 2015)
• 1989 – Rodrigo de Triano, English race horse (d. 2014)
• 1989 – Igor Morozov, Estonian footballer
• 1989 – Ben Pringle, English footballer
• 1990 – Yenew Alamirew, Ethiopian runner
• 1990 – Chris Colfer, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
• 1991 – Ksenia Pervak, Russian tennis player
• 1991 – Eneli Vals, Estonian footballer
• 1994 – Aymeric Laporte, French footballer

Deaths[edit]

• 366 – Procopius, Roman usurper (b. 325)
• 866 – Ordoño I of Asturias (b. 831)
• 927 – Simeon I of Bulgaria (b. 864)
• 1039 – Dirk III, Count of Holland (b. 981)
• 1444 – John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English commander (b. 1404)
• 1508 – Ludovico Sforza, Italian son of Francesco I Sforza (b. 1452)
• 1525 – Thomas Müntzer, German mystic and theologian (b. 1488)
• 1541 – Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (b. 1473)
• 1564 – John Calvin, French pastor and theologian (b. 1509)
• 1610 – François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (b. 1578)
• 1661 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, Scottish general and politician (b. 1607)
• 1675 – Gaspard Dughet, Italian-French painter (b. 1613)
• 1690 – Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1626)
• 1702 – Dominique Bouhours, French priest and critic (b. 1628)
• 1707 – Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (b. 1640)
• 1781 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1716)
• 1797 – François-Noël Babeuf, French journalist (b. 1760)
• 1831 – Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author (b. 1799)
• 1840 – Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782)
• 1896 – Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1839)
• 1910 – Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1918 – Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (b. 1869)
• 1919 – Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist (b. 1848)
• 1927 – Oscar Stribolt, Danish actor and director (b. 1872)
• 1933 – Achille Paroche, French target shooter (b. 1868)
• 1939 – Joseph Roth, Austrian-French journalist and author (b. 1894)
• 1941 – Ernst Lindemann, German captain (b. 1894)
• 1941 – Günther Lütjens, German admiral (b. 1889)
• 1942 – Muhammed Hamdi Yazır, Turkish theologian, logician, and translator (b. 1878)
• 1943 – Gordon Coates, New Zealand soldier and politician, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1878)
• 1945 – Enno Lolling, German physician (b. 1888)
• 1947 – Ed Konetchy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1885)
• 1949 – Robert Ripley, American cartoonist, publisher, and businessman, founded Ripley's Believe It or Not! (b. 1890)
• 1953 – Jesse Burkett, American baseball player and manager (b. 1868)
• 1960 – James Montgomery Flagg, American painter and illustrator (b. 1877)
• 1963 – Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (b. 1912)
• 1964 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (b. 1889)
• 1967 – W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator (b. 1880)
• 1967 – Ernst Niekisch, German academic and politician (b. 1889)
• 1968 – Denise Legeay, French actress (b. 1898)
• 1969 – Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (b. 1926)
• 1971 – Armando Picchi, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1935)
• 1971 – Chips Rafferty, Australian actor (b. 1909)
• 1980 – Gün Sazak, Turkish agronomist and politician (b. 1932)
• 1984 – Vasilije Mokranjac, Serbian composer (b. 1923)
• 1986 – Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American philosopher and academic (b. 1921)
• 1986 – Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1901)
• 1986 – Giorgos Tzifos, Greek actor and cinematographer (b. 1918)
• 1987 – John Howard Northrop, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• 1988 – Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (b. 1908)
• 1988 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 1989 – Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1907)
• 1990 – Robert B. Meyner, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (b. 1908)
• 1991 – Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist and theorist (b. 1904)
• 1992 – Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (b. 1890)
• 1993 – Werner Stocker, German actor (b. 1955)
• 1994 – Charles Rodman Campbell, American murderer (b. 1954)
• 1998 – Minoo Masani, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1905)
• 2000 – Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer and pilot (b. 1912)
• 2000 – Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, Scottish politician and diplomat, 25th Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1917)
• 2000 – Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1921)
• 2003 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer and educator (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Rob Borsellino, American journalist (b. 1949)
• 2006 – Paul Gleason, American actor (b. 1939)
• 2006 – Craig Heyward, American football player (b. 1966)
• 2006 – Alex Toth, American illustrator and animator (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Oduvil Unnikrishnan, Indian actor and composer (b. 1944)
• 2007 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer-songwriter (Zard) (b. 1967)
• 2007 – Gretchen Wyler, American actress and dancer (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Ed Yost, American inventor, created the hot air balloon (b. 1919)
• 2008 – Franz Künstler, Hungarian soldier (b. 1900)
• 2009 – Thomas M. Franck, American lawyer and academic (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Clive Granger, Welsh-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1934)
• 2009 – Mona Grey, British nursing administrator; Northern Ireland's first Chief Nursing Officer (CNO)
• 2009 – Abram Hoffer, Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist (b. 1917)
• 2009 – Gérard Jean-Juste, Haitian-American priest and theologian (b. 1946)
• 2009 – Carol Anne O'Marie, American nun and author (b. 1933)
• 2009 – William Refshauge, Australian soldier and physician (b. 1913)
• 2009 – Paul Sharratt, English-American television host (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator and director (b. 1929)
• 2011 – Jeff Conaway, American actor and singer (b. 1950)
• 2011 – Margo Dydek, Polish-American basketball player (b. 1974)
• 2011 – Gil Scott-Heron, American singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1949)
• 2012 – Simeon Daniel, Nevisian educator and politician, 1st Premier of Nevis (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician and academic (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Zita Kabátová, Czech actress (b. 1913)
• 2012 – David Rimoin, Canadian-American geneticist and academic (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Johnny Tapia, American boxer (b. 1967)
• 2013 – György Bárdy, Hungarian actor (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Nazmiye Demirel, Turkish wife of Süleyman Demirel, 9th First Lady of Turkey (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, Indian politician (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Little Tony, Italian-Sammarinese singer and actor (b. 1941)
• 2013 – Bill Pertwee, English actor (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Abdoulaye Sékou Sow, Malian politician, Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Lochsong, English race horse (b. 1988)
• 2014 – Aurora Bretón, Mexican archer (b. 1950)
• 2014 – Ruth Flowers, English DJ and producer (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Robert Genn, Canadian painter and author (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Helma Sanders-Brahms, German director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1940)
• 2014 – Roberto Vargas, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Massimo Vignelli, Italian-American graphic designer (b. 1931)
• 2015 – Erik Carlsson, Swedish race car driver (b. 1929)
• 2015 – Nils Christie, Norwegian sociologist, criminologist, and author (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Andy King, English footballer and manager (b. 1956)
• 2015 – Michael Martin, American philosopher and academic (b. 1932)
• 2015 – Elisabeth Wiedemann, German actress and dancer (b. 1926)

Why are women banned from Mount Athos?

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting Mount Athos in Greece to mark the 1,000-year presence of Russian Orthodox monks there. The Mount - actually a 335 sq km (130 sq mile) peninsula - may be the largest area in the world from which women, and female animals, are banned. 

If you want to visit Mount Athos the first step is to submit a copy of your passport to the Mount Athos Pilgrims' Bureau. Each day, 100 Orthodox and 10 non-Orthodox male pilgrims are admitted for a three-night stay in one of the peninsula's 20 monasteries.

Women will not be granted a permit and must stay behind as their male friends board the ferry at one of the two closest ports.

Mount Athos has barred women for more than 1,000 years - they are not allowed within 500m of the coast.

According to Dr Graham Speake, author of Mount Athos: Renewal in Paradise, a 10th Century charter states that female animals are excluded but says nothing about women because "everyone knew that women were not allowed in men's monasteries".

This was the simplest way, he says, to ensure celibacy. The thing that makes Athos different from other monasteries, he says, is that the whole peninsula "is regarded as one huge monastery".

But there is also another reason for banning women, connected with Orthodox tradition. 

"One of the traditions is that the Virgin Mary was blown off course when she was trying to sail to Cyprus and landed on Mount Athos. And she liked it so much that she prayed to her son that she should be given it as her own and he agreed," says Speake. "It's still called 'the garden of the mother of God', dedicated to her glory, and she alone represents her sex on Mount Athos."

This applies to both humans and domestic animals, except for cats.

"There are a lot of cats around and it's probably a quite a good thing that there are because they are good mousers. They turn a blind eye, as it were, to the fact that there are female cats," says Speake.

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Other places women are barred

Sabarimala temple in India's south-western state of Kerala is out-of-bounds to women aged between 10 and 50 - that is, those at an age at which they could be menstruating. Campaigners are currently seeking to overturn this ban in India's Supreme Court.

Mount Omine in Japan. The area is considered a holy site by followers of Shugendo, a Japanese folk-religion, and a place where its male adherents test their faith through strenuous physical challenges.

Herbertstrasse in Hamburg's red-light district of St Pauli has signs saying: "No entrance for juveniles under 18 years of age and women."

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This means that dairy products and eggs have to be brought in from outside.

"They eat very little dairy. There is a bit of cheese... they do quite like cheese in salads," says Speake.

"They have eggs at Easter - hens' eggs which they paint red. That is absolutely standard. Again they have to import them as there are no chickens on the mountain."

An exception has to be made for wild animals, which would be near-impossible to control.

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With boys, the policy has become more flexible over the years.

"The rule is and always has been that men should be capable of growing a beard if they were going to go to Athos, and there was a prohibition against eunuchs and boys in the Byzantine period," says Speake. The fear was that a woman could pretend to be a boy or a eunuch in order to sneak in.

"What happens nowadays is that boys frequently come if they're accompanied by an adult - usually their father - and I've seen boys as young as ten. And the monks are very indulgent towards them. They actually like having boys around.

"So the answer is that yes, boys do come occasionally, but invariably when accompanied by an adult."

Women have visited the peninsula, however, despite the ban. 

During the Greek Civil War, between 1946 and 1949, Mount Athos granted sanctuary to peasants' flocks, and women and girls were part of a raiding party which entered Athos in pursuit of the animals.

And in 1953, the three-day visit of a Greek woman, Maria Poimenidou - who dressed as a man - caused Greece to pass a law which prohibits women from entering Athos, with a maximum penalty of 12 months' imprisonment for those who break it.

More recently, in May 2008, four Moldovan women were dropped there by Ukrainian people smugglers. Police briefly detained them, but one officer said "they were forgiven" by the monks.

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This is President Putin's second visit to the Russian Orthodox monastery of Saint Panteleimon on Mount Athos.

When he first visited in 2005 the majority of pilgrims were Greek. Now, Speake says, as many as half of the 40,000 yearly visitors are Russian, and the Russian monastery has room for 500 guests.

Business Insider: Στα Ιωάννινα, ένα από τα πιο απομακρυσμένα ξενοδοχεία στον κόσμο 

Εάν υπάρχουν ορεινοί παράδεισοι, το χωριό της Αρίστης

 συγκαταλέγεται μέσα σε αυτούς. Καρφιτσωμένο στο δυτικό 

Ζαγόρι, 

το χωριό εντυπωσιάζει με την φύση και την αρχιτεκτονική του.

Εκεί, βρίσκεται και το Aristi Mountain Resort & Villas, το οποίο το Business 

Insider κατέταξε σε ένα από τα καλύτερα απομακρυσμένα ξενοδοχεία του κόσμου.

Μακριά από την πολυκοσμία, τον θόρυβο, το ξενοδοχείο προσφέρει μια μοναδική 

εμπειρία για όλους όσοι αναζητούν το πράσινο της φύσης, τον καθαρό αέρα, χωρίς,

 ωστόσο, να χάνουν τις ανέσεις τους.

«Σκαρφαλωμένο στην οροσειρά της Πίνδου, το Aristi Mountain Resort & Villas 

είναι αγαπημένο όσων αναζητούν μια απόδραση στη φύση χωρίς φασαρία.

 Το ξενοδοχείο είναι ένα εξαιρετικό σημείο εκκίνησης για πεζοπορία και έχει

 τόσο σουίτες όσο και βίλες για τους επισκέπτες», αναφέρει το Business Insider.

Η καρδιά του ξενοδοχείο χτυπά όλο τον χρόνο. Το χιόνι του χειμώνα αντικαθιστούν

 τα λουλούδια και τα κελαηδήματα των πουλιών, με τις νύχτες να γεμίζουν 

αρώματα, ενώ τα κίτρινα χρώματα του φθινοπώρου αλλάζουν με την δροσιά και 

τον λαμπερό ήλιο του καλοκαιριού.

Το Aristi Mountain Resort & Villas είναι το καταφύγιο που θέλει ο καθένας.

 Ηρεμία, εμπειρία και παράδοση.

Ο δημιουργός του Βασίλης Ιωσηφίδης θέλησε να δημιουργήσει έναν χώρο

 φιλοξενίας για όλους, δημιουργώντας ένα κατάλυμα εναρμονισμένο με τη φύση.

Μοναδικοί με πέτρα και ξύλο χώροι, οικογενειακά δωμάτια με σοφίτες, σουίτες

 και πολυτελείς βίλες αποζητούν τη ζωή των ταξιδιωτών.

Ο επισκέπτης έχει τη δυνατότητα να κάνει ό,τι σκεφτεί. Από το να γνωρίσει τα

 κρασιά της περιοχής μέχρι γιόγκα και jeep σαφάρι.

Αν ποτέ ο δρόμος σας σας βγάλει στα Ιωάννινα, μην ξεχάσετε πως το Aristi 

Mountain Resort & Villas είναι ο προορισμός και το σημείο εκκίνησης για 

γνωριμία με τον παράδεισο της περιοχής.

Αυτό είναι το σπίτι που θα ζήσουν οι Ομπάμα όταν φύγουν από τον Λευκό Οίκο -Εκπληκτικός πύργος του 1928 

Ο Πρόεδρος των ΗΠΑ Μπαράκ Ομπάμα και η σύζυγός του 

Μισέλ Ομπάμα νοίκιασαν ένα εντυπωσιακό σπίτι 761

 τετραγωνικών μέτρων σε μία από τις πιο κομψές γειτονιές της 

Ουάσινγκτον.

Πρόκειται για το σπίτι στο οποίο θα ζήσουν μετά την αποχώρηση του Μπαράκ

 Ομπάμα από τον Λευκό Οίκο (οι προεδρικές εκλογές στις ΗΠΑ είναι τον

 προσεχή Νοέμβριο). Η κατοικία, αξίας 4,3 εκατ. δολαρίων, έχει  χώρο για 

χαλάρωση, διασκέδαση, αλλά και έναν υπέροχο κήπο.

Το Politico ήταν το πρώτο που αποκάλυψε τη διεύθυνση του σπιτιού. Η οικία

 χτίστηκε το 1928, διαθέτει 9 υπνοδωμάτια και ανήκει στον Τζο Λόκχαρτ,

 που ήταν ο εκπρόσωπος Τύπου του Μπιλ Κλίντον.

Το ξύλο και το μάρμαρο κυριαρχούν στο σπίτι, ενώ η κουζίνα του είναι απλά 

εντυπωσιακή. Διαθέτει και κελάρι κρασιών.

Όπως σχολιάζει πάντως η Daily Mail, ο κύριος λόγος για τον οποία ξεχωρίζει το εν λόγω σπίτι είναι το σημείο στο οποίο βρίσκεται, μια και πρόκειται για έναν από τους πιο ακριβούς δρόμους της χώρας.

Η οικογένεια που το ενοικιάζει, για τη φωτογράφιση του σπίτιού, άφησε τα

 παιχνίδια σε κοινή θέα. Επιπλέον η οικία διαθέτει ένα υπέροχο παιδικό 

δωμάτιο, που κάνει το σπίτι πιο ζεστό.

Το μεγαλύτερο ιστιοφόρο του κόσμου 

έφτασε στην Σκόπελο 

Το μεγαλύτερο ιστιοφόρο του κόσμου, το «Royal Clipper»,

 μήκους 135 μέτρων και ύψους 60 μέτρων, έφτασε την 

Πέμπτη στο λιμάνι της Σκοπέλου, εντυπωσιάζοντας όσους

 είχαν την ευκαιρία να το δουν από κοντά.

Το σκάφος που κατασκευάστηκε το 2000 από το μεγαλύτερο ναυπηγείο

 της Πολωνίας, το Gdansk, μπορεί να φιλοξενήσει μέχρι και 220 άτομα, ενώ τα

 πανιά του έχουν συνολικό εμβαδόν, 5.202 τετραγωνικών μέτρων.

Το ιστιοφόρο διαθέτει 5 κατάρτια, 42 πανιά και πλήρωμα 100 ατόμων, ενώ

 λειτουργεί ως κρουαζιερόπλοιο στην Μεσόγειο κατά τη διάρκεια του καλοκαιριού,

 ενώ τον χειμώνα «μετακομίζει» στην Καραϊβική.

Λέγεται μάλιστα ότι το σχέδιο του βασίζεται σε ένα θρυλικό, ανάλογο σκάφος

 της Γερμανίας, το «Windjammer», που κατασκευάστηκε το 1902.

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• 585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of Halys, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
• 621 – Battle of Hulao: Li Shimin, the son of the Chinese emperor Gaozu, defeats the numerically superior forces of Dou Jiande near the Hulao Pass (Henan). This victory decides the outcome of the civil war that followed the Sui dynasty's collapse in favour of the Tang dynasty.
• 1503 – James IV of Scotland and Margaret Tudor are married according to a papal bull by Pope Alexander VI. A Treaty of Everlasting Peace between Scotland and England signed on that occasion results in a peace that lasts ten years.
• 1533 – The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declares the marriage of King Henry VIII of England to Anne Boleyn valid.
• 1588 – The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port.)
• 1644 – Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby.
• 1754 – French and Indian War: In the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
• 1830 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans.
• 1871 – Fall of the Paris Commune.
• 1892 – In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
• 1900 – Gare d'Orsay railway station is inaugurated in Paris.
• 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
• 1907 – The first Isle of Man TT race was held.
• 1918 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and the First Republic of Armenia declare their independence.
• 1926 – The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
• 1932 – In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
• 1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
• 1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
• 1936 – Klaipėda Radio Station begins regular broadcasting.
• 1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
• 1937 – Volkswagen (VW), the German automobile manufacturer is founded.
• 1940 – World War II: Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany to end the Battle of Belgium.
• 1940 – World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
• 1942 – World War II: In retaliation for the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich, Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people.
• 1948 – Daniel François Malan is elected as Prime Minister of South Africa. He later goes on to implement Apartheid.
• 1951 – The British radio comedy program The Goon Show is broadcast on the BBC for the first time.
• 1952 – The women of Greece are granted the right to vote.
• 1958 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement, heavily reinforced by Frank Pais Militia, overwhelm an army post in El Uvero.
• 1961 – Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
• 1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization is formed.
• 1974 – Northern Ireland's power-sharing Sunningdale Agreement collapses following a general strike by loyalists.
• 1975 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
• 1977 – In Southgate, Kentucky, the Beverly Hills Supper Club is engulfed in fire, killing 165 people inside.
• 1979 – Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
• 1987 – West German pilot Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands a private plane in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. He is immediately detained and would not be released until August 3, 1988.
• 1991 – The capital city of Addis Ababa falls to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, ending both the Derg regime in Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Civil War.
• 1993 – Eritrea and Monaco join the United Nations.
• 1995 – The Russian town of Neftegorsk is hit by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that kills at least 2,000 people, half of the total population.
• 1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
• 1998 – Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
• 1999 – In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
• 2002 – The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
• 2002 – NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
• 2002 – The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars.
• 2003 – Peter Hollingworth becomes the first Governor-General of Australia to resign his office as a result of criticism of his conduct.
• 2004 – The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
• 2008 – The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
• 2010 – In West Bengal, India, a train derailment and subsequent collision kills 141 passengers.
• 2011 – Malta votes on the introduction of divorce.

Births[edit]

• 1140 – Xin Qiji, Chinese poet, general, and politician (d. 1207)
• 1371 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1419)
• 1524 – Selim II, Ottoman sultan (d. 1574)
• 1588 – Pierre Séguier, French politician, Lord Chancellor of France (d. 1672)
• 1660 – George I of Great Britain (d. 1727)
• 1676 – Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1754)
• 1692 – Geminiano Giacomelli, Italian composer (d. 1740)
• 1738 – Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (d. 1814)
• 1759 – William Pitt the Younger, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1806)
• 1763 – Manuel Alberti, Argentinian priest and journalist (d. 1811)
• 1764 – Edward Livingston, American jurist and politician, 11th United States Secretary of State (d. 1836)
• 1779 – Thomas Moore, Irish poet and composer (d. 1852)
• 1807 – Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American paleontologist and geologist (d. 1873)
• 1818 – P. G. T. Beauregard, American general (d. 1893)
• 1836 – Friedrich Baumfelder, German pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1916)
• 1836 – Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist and academic (d. 1918)
• 1837 – George Ashlin, Irish architect, co-designed St Colman's Cathedral (d. 1921)
• 1837 – Tony Pastor, American businessman (d. 1908)
• 1841 – Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (d. 1887)
• 1853 – Carl Larsson, Swedish painter and author (d. 1919)
• 1858 – Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch (d. 1939)
• 1872 – Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist and mountaineer (d. 1917)
• 1878 – Paul Pelliot, French sinologist and explorer (d. 1945)
• 1879 – Milutin Milanković, Serbian mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (d. 1958)
• 1883 – Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician (d. 1966)
• 1883 – Clough Williams-Ellis, English-Welsh architect, designed the Portmeirion Village (d. 1978)
• 1884 – Edvard Beneš, Czech academic and politician, 2nd President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1948)
• 1886 – Santo Trafficante, Sr., Italian-American mobster (d. 1954)
• 1888 – Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian journalist and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1942)
• 1888 – Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, English author and educator (d. 1947)
• 1888 – Jim Thorpe, American decathlete, football player, and coach (d. 1953)
• 1889 – Richard Réti, Slovak-Czech chess player and author (d. 1929)
• 1892 – Sepp Dietrich, German general (d. 1966)
• 1892 – Minna Gombell, American actress (d. 1973)
• 1896 – Konstantin Märska, Estonian director and cinematographer (d. 1951)
• 1900 – Tommy Ladnier, American trumpet player (d. 1939)
• 1903 – S. L. Kirloskar, Indian businessman, founded Kirloskar Group (d. 1994)
• 1906 – Henry Thambiah, Sri Lankan lawyer, judge, and diplomat, Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada (d. 1997)
• 1908 – Léo Cadieux, Canadian journalist and politician, 17th Canadian Minister of National Defence (d. 2005)
• 1908 – Ian Fleming, English journalist and author, created James Bond (d. 1964)
• 1909 – Red Horner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
• 1910 – Georg Gaßmann, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (d. 1987)
• 1910 – Rachel Kempson, English-American actress (d. 2003)
• 1910 – T-Bone Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1975)
• 1911 – Bob Crisp, South African cricketer (d. 1994)
• 1911 – Thora Hird, English actress (d. 2003)
• 1911 – Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian playwright (d. 1986)
• 1912 – Herman Johannes, Indonesian scientist, academic, and politician (d. 1992)
• 1912 – Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (d. 1981)
• 1912 – Patrick White, English-Australian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1990)
• 1914 – W. G. G. Duncan Smith, English captain and pilot (d. 1996)
• 1915 – Joseph Greenberg, American linguist and academic (d. 2001)
• 1916 – Walker Percy, American author and academic (d. 1990)
• 1917 – Barry Commoner, American biologist, academic, and politician (d. 2012)
• 1917 – Papa John Creach, American violinist (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, and The Dinosaurs) (d. 1994)
• 1918 – Johnny Wayne, Canadian actor and screenwriter (d. 1990)
• 1921 – D. V. Paluskar, Indian Hindustani classical musician (d. 1955)
• 1921 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German journalist and author (d. 1999)
• 1921 – Tom Uren, Australian soldier, boxer, and politician (d. 2015)
• 1922 – Lou Duva, American boxer, trainer, and manager
• 1922 – Roger Fisher, American author and academic (d. 2012)
• 1922 – Tuomas Gerdt, Finnish sergeant
• 1923 – György Ligeti, Romanian-Austrian composer and educator (d. 2006)
• 1923 – N. T. Rama Rao, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician, 10th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (d. 1996)
• 1924 – Edward du Cann, English lieutenant and politician
• 1924 – Paul Hébert, Canadian actor
• 1925 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish journalist, scholar, and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2006)
• 1925 – Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German opera singer and conductor (d. 2012)
• 1928 – Sally Forrest, American actress and dancer (d. 2015)
• 1929 – Patrick McNair-Wilson, English politician
• 1930 – Edward Seaga, American-Jamaican academic and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Jamaica
• 1931 – Carroll Baker, American actress
• 1931 – Gordon Willis, American cinematographer (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Neil Black, English oboe player and educator
• 1932 – Tim Renton, Baron Renton of Mount Harry, English politician, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries
• 1932 – S. Selvanayagam, Ceylon geographer and academic (d. 1979)
• 1933 – John Karlen, American actor
• 1933 – Zelda Rubinstein, American actress and activist (d. 2010)
• 1934 – Bill Baillie, New Zealand runner
• 1935 – Anne Reid, English actress
• 1936 – Claude Forget, Canadian academic and politician
• 1936 – Ole K. Sara, Norwegian politician (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist (d. 1997)
• 1938 – Jerry West, American basketball player, coach, and manager
• 1938 – Maurice Woods, American actor (d. 1983)
• 1940 – Maeve Binchy, Irish author and playwright (d. 2012)
• 1940 – David William Brewer, English politician, Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London
• 1940 – Shlomo Riskin, American rabbi and academic, founded the Lincoln Square Synagogue
• 1941 – Beth Howland, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
• 1942 – Happy Pieterse, South African boxer (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Stanley B. Prusiner, American neurologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 – Terry Crisp, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1943 – Helen Hardin, American painter (d. 1984)
• 1943 – Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano and actress (d. 2004)
• 1944 – Faith Brown, English actress and singer
• 1944 – Rudy Giuliani, American lawyer and politician, 107th mayor of New York City
• 1944 – Gladys Knight, American singer-songwriter and actress (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
• 1944 – Jean-Pierre Léaud, French actor and director
• 1944 – Sondra Locke, American actress, singer, and director
• 1944 – Rita MacNeil, Canadian singer and actress (d. 2013)
• 1944 – Gary Stewart, American singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
• 1944 – Billy Vera, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1945 – Patch Adams, American physician and author, founded the Gesundheit! Institute
• 1945 – John N. Bambacus, American sergeant and politician
• 1945 – John Fogerty, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Golliwogs)
• 1945 – Jean Perrault, Canadian politician, Mayor of Sherbrooke
• 1945 – Helena Shovelton, English physician
• 1946 – Skip Jutze, American baseball player
• 1946 – Janet Paraskeva, Welsh politician
• 1946 – K. Satchidanandan, Indian poet and critic
• 1946 – William Shawcross, English journalist and author
• 1947 – Zahi Hawass, Egyptian archaeologist and academic
• 1947 – Lynn Johnston, Canadian author and illustrator
• 1947 – Leland Sklar, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Section and Era)
• 1948 – Pierre Rapsat, Belgian singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
• 1949 – Wendy O. Williams, American singer-songwriter and actress (Plasmatics) (d. 1998)
• 1950 – Kamala, American wrestler
• 1950 – Ian Bradley, English minister, author, and academic
• 1952 – Roger Briggs, American pianist, composer, conductor, and educator
• 1953 – Pierre Gauthier, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1953 – Arto Lindsay, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer (DNA, The Golden Palominos, The Lounge Lizards, and Ambitious Lovers)
• 1954 – Townsend Coleman, American voice actor
• 1954 – João Carlos de Oliveira, Brazilian jumper (d. 1999)
• 1954 – Youri Egorov, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1988)
• 1954 – Andy Hamilton, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1954 – Charles Saumarez Smith, English historian and academic
• 1954 – Péter Szilágyi, Hungarian conductor and politician (d. 2013)
• 1954 – John Tory, Canadian lawyer and politician, 65th Mayor of Toronto
• 1955 – Laura Amy Schlitz, American author and librarian
• 1955 – Mark Howe, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1956 – Jerry Douglas, American guitarist and producer (The Country Gentlemen and Strength in Numbers)
• 1956 – Jeff Dujon, Jamaican cricketer
• 1956 – Markus Höttinger, Austrian race car driver (d. 1980)
• 1956 – Michael Musyoki, Kenyan runner
• 1956 – Julie Peasgood, English actress
• 1956 – Peter Wilkinson, English admiral
• 1957 – Colin Barnes, English footballer
• 1957 – Kirk Gibson, American baseball player and manager
• 1957 – Ben Howland, American basketball player and coach
• 1959 – Risto Mannisenmäki, Finnish race car driver
• 1959 – John Morgan, English etiquette expert and author (d. 2000)
• 1959 – Steve Strange, Welsh singer (Visage, The Moors Murderers, and Strange Cruise) (d. 2015)
• 1960 – Mark Sanford, American captain and politician, 115th Governor of South Carolina
• 1960 – Mary Portas, English journalist and author
• 1961 – Michelle Collins, English actress
• 1961 – Julie T. Wallace, English actress
• 1962 – Brandon Cruz, American actor and singer
• 1961 – Roland Gift, English singer-songwriter and actor (Fine Young Cannibals and Akrylykz)
• 1962 – James Michael Tyler, American actor
• 1963 – Gavin Harrison, English drummer (Porcupine Tree, King Crimson, and OSI)
• 1963 – Houman Younessi, Australian-American biologist and academic
• 1964 – David Baddiel, American-English comedian, actor, and author
• 1964 – Jeff Fenech, Australian boxer and trainer
• 1964 – Armen Gilliam, American basketball player and coach (d. 2011)
• 1964 – Christa Miller, American actress
• 1964 – Zsa Zsa Padilla, Filipino singer and actress (Hotdog)
• 1964 – Phil Vassar, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1965 – Chris Ballew, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Presidents of the United States of America and Caspar Babypants)
• 1965 – Mary Coughlan, Irish politician and Deputy prime minister of Ireland
• 1966 – Roger Kumble, American director, screenwriter, and playwright
• 1966 – Miljenko Jergović, Bosnian novelist and journalist
• 1966 – Gavin Robertson, Australian cricketer
• 1967 – Glen Rice, American basketball player
• 1968 – Kylie Minogue, Australian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1969 – Mike DiFelice, American baseball player and manager
• 1969 – Rob Ford, Canadian politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto (d. 2016)
• 1969 – Justin Kirk, American actor
• 1970 – Ian Cashmore, English paranormal investigator
• 1970 – Jimi Goodwin, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Doves and Sub Sub)
• 1970 – Paul Sinha, English comedian and physician
• 1971 – Isabelle Carré, French actress and singer
• 1971 – Ekaterina Gordeeva, Russian figure skater and sportscaster
• 1971 – Marco Rubio, American lawyer and politician
• 1972 – Doriva, Brazilian footballer and manager
• 1972 – Michael Boogerd, Dutch cyclist and manager
• 1973 – Marco Paulo Faria Lemos, Portuguese footballer and manager
• 1974 – Hans-Jörg Butt, German footballer
• 1974 – Alicia Minshew, American actress
• 1975 – Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistani cricketer
• 1975 – Marc Bauer, Swiss illustrator
• 1975 – Maura Johnston, American journalist, critic, and academic
• 1976 – Steven Bell, Australian rugby league player
• 1976 – Zaza Enden, Georgian-Turkish wrestler, basketball player, and coach
• 1976 – Roberto Goretti, Italian footballer
• 1976 – Glenn Morrison, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1976 – Alexei Nemov, Russian gymnast
• 1976 – Liam O'Brien, American voice actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1977 – Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American talk show host and author
• 1979 – Abdulaziz al-Omari, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 11 (d. 2001)
• 1979 – Jesse Bradford, American actor
• 1979 – Ronald Curry, American football player and coach
• 1979 – Joeri Jansen, Belgian runner
• 1979 – Monica Keena, American actress
• 1980 – Markus Feehily, Irish singer-songwriter and pianist (Westlife)
• 1980 – Miguel Pérez, Spanish footballer
• 1980 – Lucy Shuker, English tennis player
• 1980 – Jørgen Strickert, Norwegian comedian, author, and radio host
• 1981 – Daniel Cabrera, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1981 – Eric Ghiaciuc, American football player
• 1981 – Adam Green, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Moldy Peaches)
• 1981 – Victoria Legrand, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Beach House)
• 1981 – Derval O'Rourke, Irish hurdler
• 1981 – Aaron Schock, American lawyer and politician
• 1981 – Uğur İnceman, German-Turkish footballer
• 1982 – Alexa Davalos, French-American actress
• 1982 – Desiree del Valle, Filipino actress
• 1982 – Jhonny Peralta, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1983 – Roman Atwood, American comedian and video blogger
• 1983 – Steve Cronin, American soccer player
• 1983 – Toby Hemingway, English actor
• 1983 – Humberto Sánchez, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1984 – Beth Allen, New Zealand actress
• 1985 – Colbie Caillat, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1985 – Pablo Andrés González, Argentinian footballer
• 1985 – Kostas Mendrinos, Greek footballer
• 1985 – Carey Mulligan, English actress and singer
• 1986 – Berrick Barnes, Australian rugby player
• 1986 – Joseph Cross, American actor
• 1986 – Charles N'Zogbia, French footballer
• 1986 – Michael Oher, American football player
• 1986 – Seth Rollins, American wrestler
• 1986 – Ingmar Vos, Dutch decathlete
• 1988 – NaVorro Bowman, American football player
• 1988 – Percy Harvin, American football player
• 1988 – Craig Kimbrel, American baseball player
• 1988 – Meisa Kuroki, Japanese actress and singer
• 1988 – David Perron, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1988 – Luke Prosser, English footballer
• 1990 – Kyle Walker, English footballer
• 1991 – Sharrif Floyd, American football player
• 1991 – Alexandre Lacazette, French footballer
• 1991 – Kail Piho, Estonian skier
• 1992 – Tom Carroll, English footballer
• 1992 – Mira Gonzalez, American poet
• 1992 – Huang Qiushuang, Chinese gymnast
• 1993 – Bárbara Luz, Portuguese tennis player
• 1993 – Jonnie Peacock, English sprinter
• 1993 – Mason Shefa, American director and producer
• 1994 – Son Yeon-jae, South Korean gymnast
• 1998 – Riho Sayashi, Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume)
• 1999 – Cameron Boyce, American actor
• 2001 – Rikako Sasaki, Japanese singer and actress (Angerme)

Deaths[edit]

• 576 – Germain of Paris, French bishop and saint (b. 496)
• 1023 – Wulfstan, English archbishop
• 1357 – Afonso IV of Portugal (b. 1291)
• 1509 – Caterina Sforza, Italian daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza (b. 1463)
• 1556 – Saitō Dōsan, Japanese samurai (b. 1494)
• 1626 – Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk (b. 1561)
• 1651 – Henry Grey, 10th Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1594)
• 1672 – John Trevor, Welsh politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (b. 1626)
• 1747 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French author (b. 1715)
• 1750 – Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
• 1787 – Leopold Mozart, Austrian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1719)
• 1805 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and composer (b. 1743)
• 1808 – Richard Hurd, English bishop (b. 1720)
• 1811 – Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for War (b. 1742)
• 1816 – Wolde Selassie, Ethiopian warlord (b. 1745)
• 1828 – Daikokuya Kōdayū, Japanese castaway (b. 1751)
• 1831 – William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish-English admiral (b. 1756)
• 1843 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer and author (b. 1758)
• 1849 – Anne Brontë, English novelist and poet (b. 1820)
• 1864 – Simion Bărnuțiu, Romanian historian and politician (b. 1808)
• 1878 – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)
• 1916 – Ivan Franko, Ukrainian economist, journalist, and poet (b. 1856)
• 1927 – Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter and stage designer (b. 1878)
• 1937 – Alfred Adler, Austrian-Scottish ophthalmologist and psychologist (b. 1870)
• 1940 – Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse (b. 1868)
• 1946 – Carter Glass, American publisher and politician, 47th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1858)
• 1947 – August Eigruber, Austrian-German politician (b. 1907)
• 1952 – Philippe Desranleau, Canadian archbishop (b. 1882)
• 1953 – Tatsuo Hori, Japanese author and poet (b. 1904)
• 1968 – Fyodor Okhlopkov, Russian sergeant and sniper (b. 1908)
• 1971 – Audie Murphy, American lieutenant and actor, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1924)
• 1971 – Jean Vilar, French actor and director (b. 1912)
• 1972 – Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894)
• 1975 – Ezzard Charles, American boxer (b. 1921)
• 1976 – Zainul Abedin, Bangladeshi painter and sculptor (b. 1914)
• 1976 – Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b. 1922)
• 1978 – Arthur Brough, English actor (b. 1905)
• 1980 – Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician and academic (b. 1895)
• 1981 – Mary Lou Williams, American pianist and composer (b. 1910)
• 1981 – Stefan Wyszyński, Polish cardinal (b. 1901)
• 1982 – H. Jones, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1940)
• 1983 – Erastus Corning 2nd, American soldier and politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany (b. 1909)
• 1984 – Eric Morecambe, English actor and singer (b. 1926)
• 1986 – Edip Cansever, Turkish poet and author (b. 1928)
• 1988 – Sy Oliver, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1910)
• 1994 – Julius Boros, American golfer (b. 1920)
• 1994 – Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American author and academic (b. 1916)
• 1998 – Phil Hartman, Canadian-American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1948)
• 1999 – Michael Barkai, Israeli commander (b. 1935)
• 1999 – B. Vittalacharya, Indian director and producer (b. 1920)
• 2000 – George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (b. 1926)
• 2001 – Francis Bebey, Cameroonian-French guitarist (b. 1929)
• 2001 – Joe Moakley, American lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
• 2001 – Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher (b. 1946)
• 2002 – Mildred Benson, American journalist and author (b. 1905)
• 2002 – Jean Berger, German-American pianist, composer, and academic (b. 1909)
• 2003 – Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• 2003 – Martha Scott, American actress and producer (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Umberto Agnelli, Swiss-Italian businessman and politician (b. 1934)
• 2004 – Francis Brunn, German juggler (b. 1922)
• 2004 – Michael Buonauro, American author and illustrator (b. 1979)
• 2006 – Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian ski jumper and author (b. 1920)
• 2007 – Marquise Hill, American football player (b. 1982)
• 2007 – Jörg Immendorff, German painter, sculptor, and academic (b. 1945)
• 2007 – David Lane, American white nationalist leader, co-founded The Order (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Agriculture (b. 1945)
• 2008 – Beryl Cook, English painter and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Robert H. Justman, American director and producer (b. 1926)
• 2010 – Gary Coleman, American actor (b. 1968)
• 2011 – Alys Robi, Canadian singer (b. 1923)
• 2011 – Gino Valenzano, Italian race car driver (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Hugh Dawnay, English polo player and author (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Bob Edwards, English journalist (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Ludovic Quistin, Caribbean footballer (b. 1984)
• 2012 – Yuri Susloparov, Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager (b. 1958)
• 2012 – Matthew Yuricich, American special effects artist (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Eddi Arent, Polish-German actor (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Nino Bibbia, Italian bobsledder (b. 1922)
• 2013 – Viktor Kulikov, Russian commander (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Fotis Polymeris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Eddie Romero, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Gerd Schmückle, German general (b. 1917)
• 2014 – Maya Angelou, American memoirist and poet (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Stan Crowther, English footballer (b. 1935)
• 2014 – Oscar Dystel, American publisher (b. 1912)
• 2014 – Malcolm Glazer, American businessman (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Bob Houbregs, Canadian-American basketball player and manager (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Isaac Kungwane, South African footballer (b. 1971)
• 2014 – Azlan Shah of Perak (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Steven Gerber, American pianist and composer (b. 1948)
• 2015 – Johnny Keating, Scottish trombonist, composer, and producer (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Reynaldo Rey, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1940)

Βρέθηκε ο τάφος του Αριστοτέλη

 στα αρχαία Στάγειρα 

Μετά από 20 χρόνια ανασκαφικής περιπέτειας ένα σπουδαίο

 ταφικό μνημείο εντοπίστηκε στα αρχαία Στάγειρα.

 Ο τάφος του μεγάλου φιλοσόφου Αριστοτέλη. 

Το σπουδαίο εύρημα από την εικοσαετή ανασκαφική έρευνα ανακοινώθηκε

 στη Θεσσαλονίκη, σε εκατοντάδες κορυφαίους αριστοτελιστές της παγκόσμιας

 επιστημονικής κοινότητας, στο πλαίσιο παγκόσμιου Συνεδρίου που

 πραγματοποιείται γύρω απο τον φιλόσοφο. 

Ο τάφος του Αριστοτέλη, διασώζεται εδώ και 2.400 χρόνια στη γενέτειρα του.
Ένα ηρώο όπου οι Σταγειρίτες μετέφεραν και εναπόθεσαν την τέφρα του

 φιλοσόφου αμέσως μετά τον θάνατο του στη Χαλκίδα, τον τίμησαν ως ήρωα, 

σωτήρα, νομοθέτη και δεύτερο «οικιστή» της πόλης τους, εφόσον με δική του 

μεσολάβηση στον Φίλιππο επανιδρύθηκαν (340 π.Χ) τα Στάγειρα, που είχαν 

καταστραφεί από τον ίδιο Μακεδόνα βασιλιά το 349 π.Χ.

 Το ταφικό οικοδόμημα εντοπίστηκε ανάμεσα στη στοά του 5ου αιώνα και στον

 αρχαϊκό ναό του Διός Σωτήρος και της Αθηνάς Σώτειρας (6ος αιώνας π.Χ.), 

μεταξύ της αρχαϊκής και της κλασικής πόλης, στη χερσόνησο «Λιοτόπι».

Η αψιδωτή του κάτοψη (10 περίπου μέτρα), το σχήμα του, η ύπαρξη ορθογώνιου

 μαρμαροθετημένου δαπέδου με κενή επιφάνεια-βωμό (1,30x1,70 μ.) είχαν

 προβληματίσει πολύ τον αρχαιολόγο ερευνητή, καθώς περιβάλλει επακριβώς έναν

 τετράγωνο βυζαντινό πύργο.
«Δεν έχουμε αποδείξεις αλλά ισχυρότατες ενδείξεις – φθάνουν σχεδόν στη

 βεβαιότητα. Η θέση στην οποία κτίστηκε το πεταλωτό οικοδόμημα, μέσα στην

 πόλη και κοντά στην Αγορά (κατά παρέκκλιση των νενομισμένων), με 

πανοραμική θέα προς όλες τις κατευθύνσεις. Η εποχή της κατασκευής του στην

 αρχή-αρχή ακόμη της ελληνιστικής περιόδου. Το ασύμβατο για άλλες χρήσεις

 σχήμα του. Ο δημόσιος χαρακτήρας του και η μεγάλη βιασύνη που διακρίνεται στην

 κατασκευή του, με ποιοτικό, άλλα ετερόκλητο οικοδομικό υλικό σε δεύτερη

 χρήση. Η ύπαρξη βωμού σε τετραγωνισμένο δάπεδο. Ολα αυτά οδηγούν στο

 συμπέρασμα ότι το σωζόμενο αψιδωτό κτίσμα ήταν ο τάφος-ηρώο του

 Αριστοτέλη», επισημαίνει ο ανασκαφέας, μελετητής των αρχαίων Σταγείρων, 

αρχαιολόγος Κώστας Σισμανίδης στην πρώτη επιστημονική ανακοίνωση που

 κάνει σήμερα για τον «τάφο του Αριστοτέλη» στο παγκόσμιο συνέδριο

 «Αριστοτέλης 2.400 χρόνια».

Η επίσημη ανακοίνωση για το ταφικό μνημείο του Αριστοτέλη θα γίνει από

 τον διδάκτορα κλασσικής αρχαιολογίας Κώστα Σισμανίδη, ο οποίος έχει κάνει

 τις ανασκαφές στον αρχαιολογικό χώρο των Σταγείρων και ήταν επικεφαλής 

της ΙΣΤ’ Εφορείας Προιστορικών και Κλασσικών Αρχαιοτήτων.
Η ανακοίνωση εντάσσεται στο πλαίσιο του Παγκοσμίου Συνεδρίου για

 τον Αριστοτέλη, το οποίο διεξάγεται αυτές τις ημέρες στην Θεσσαλονίκη 

με αφορμή τα 2.400 χρόνια από την γέννησή του. Το συνέδριο τελεί υπό την

 αιγίδα της UNESCO και μετέχουν εκατοντάδες επιστήμονες από 41 χώρες.

Το πλωτό παλάτι του Εμίρη του Κατάρ στην Μυκονο

Ariana Grande scores first UK number one album with Dangerous Woman

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Pop star Ariana Grande has topped the UK album chart for the first time with her third record, Dangerous Woman.

The album, which marks a more mature direction for the former child star, outsold its nearest rival, Views by Drake, by just 600 copies.

But Drake kept a firm grip on the singles chart, where One Dance spent a seventh week at the top.

It's the longest run at number one since Leona Lewis's Bleeding Love in 2007.

Top five singles
1) Drake	One Dance
2) Justin Timberlake	Can't Stop The Feeling
3) Calvin Harris ft Rihanna	This Is What You Came For
4) Sia ft Sean Paul	Cheap Thrills
5) Galantis	No Money

The song achieved a "combined chart sale" of 92,500 - a figure that combines paid-for sales with streams.

According to the Official Chart Company, One Dance was the most-streamed song of the week, achieving 6.68 million plays.

The rest of the singles chart was relatively static - with Justin Timberlake, Calvin Harris and Sia non-movers at two, three and four respectively.

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Take That scored their 27th top 40 hit, thanks to a guest spot on Sigma's Cry, which was new at number 21; while Craig David's One More Time was brand new at 30.

US singer-songwriter Gnash was the highest climber with his heartbroken, but lyrically explicit, ballad I Hate U, I Love U.

And Canadian singer Shawn Mendes, who found fame on social media, saw his signature song Stitches rack up its 40th week on the countdown.

Top five albums
1) Ariana Grande	Dangerous Woman
2) Drake	Views
3) Richard Ashcroft	These People
4) Beyonce	Lemonade
5) Bob Dylan	Fallen Angels

In the album chart, Bob Dylan saw his 37th studio album, Fallen Angels, become his 37th top 10 hit, entering at number five.

Much like his last record, Shadows in the Night, every song on Fallen Angels (with the exception of Skylark) was once recorded by Frank Sinatra.

Fellow septugenarian Eric Clapton also scored a new entry at six with the cover-heavy I Still Do, despite lukewarm reviews in the music press. 

However, he was spared the critical drubbing meted out to Richard Ashcroft, whose new album These People was called "the epitome of staid mediocrity" by Clash Magazine.

Nonetheless, the former Verve star entered the charts at three.

Ζωζώ Σαπουντζάκη, η αγέραστη -Εκλεισε τα 83

Ούτε ένα, ούτε δύο κεριά, αλλά ούτε ερωτηματικό θα έχει η

 τούρτα της Ζωζώς Σαπουντζάκη. Αν έχετε απορία για την 

αειθαλή ηθοποιό, σήμερα σβήνει τα 83 της χρόνια.

Πάντα κοκέτα, η Ζωζώ ή Ζωίτσα, όπως την αποκαλούσε ο πατέρας της 

γεννήθηκε για να λάμψει.

Σε ένα σπίτι της οδού Τσιμισκή στην Θεσσαλονίκη μεγάλωσε η Ζωζώ

 Σαπουτζάκη, με την καριέρα της να ξεκινά μόλις στα 7 της χρόνια, στο «Θέατρο

 του Λευκού Πύργου».

Ποτέ της δεν πήγε σε σχολή υποκριτικής ή χορού. Ολα τα έμαθε από τους

 ανθρώπους που γνώριζε. Εμαθε να χορεύει από τoν γείτονά της Γιάννη Δαλιανίδη,

 ενώ κλακέτες της έδειξε ο Κριστιάνο στο καμπαρέ «Αρζεντίνα».

Μπορεί να ήταν δίδυμο με την αδελφή της αλλά κανείς δεν της έδινε σημασία, 

με τους πάντες να την χαρακτηρίζουν ως «μικρό». Κανείς μέχρι να χαράξει την 

δική της πορεία και από «μικρό» να γίνει «βασίλισσα της νύχτας».

Εχει συμμετάσχει σε τηλεοπτικές σειρές, κινηματογραφικές ταινίες και

 θεατρικές παραστάσεις. Τα έχει κάνει όλα, με τον γυαλί, το πανί, τη σκηνή να

 την λατρεύουν και να καλωσορίζουν την ομορφιά της.

Καριέρα σε Κωνσταντινούπολη και Αμερική, με την μητέρα της να

 ενορχηστρώνει κάθε κίνησή της και να ζητά πάντα πολλά χρήματα για να 

υπογράψει κάποιο συμβόλαιο ή δίσκο.

Στην Κωνσταντινούπολη, μάλιστα, είχαν κυκλοφορήσει και σοκολατάκια με τη

 φωτογραφία της.

Οι γάμοι, ο Ωνάσης και ο Νιάρχος

Οπως κάθε μητέρα, έτσι και η μαμά της Ζωζώς Σαμπουτζάκη ήθελε η κόρη της

 να πάρει επιστήμονα.

Ο πρώτος της γάμος, λοιπόν, ήταν με έναν ιατρό από την Θεσσαλονίκη, ο οποίος

 την περνούσε αρκετά χρόνια. Σύμφωνα με την ίδια, υπήρξε πιστή σύζυγος, 

ενώ υποστηρίζει πως καθημερινά του έκανε ποδόλουτρο. Ο γάμος δεν κράτησε

 πολύ, με την νεαρή τότε ηθοποιό να ακολουθεί τον καλλιτεχνικό δρόμο.

Στον δεύτερο της γάμο τα πράγματα ήταν διαφορετικά. Με τον σύζυγό της 

Ανδρέα έμεινε για 23 χρόνια, μέχρι και το τέλος της ζωής του.

Κατά την διάρκεια της καριέρας της τα φλερτ ήταν πολλά, με την ίδια να

 παραδέχεται πως έχει ζήσει έντονα.

«Δεν έδινα σημασία στους άντρες. Μπορεί και να μην πίστευα αυτό που ήμουν, 

γιατί όλα αυτά τα έζησα πολύ μικρή. Έζησα με πολύ ωραίους ανθρώπους και

 ήμουν τυχερή. Να τους βλέπεις με τα λευκά κουστούμια να λάμπουν και να σε

 κοιτούν σαν Θεό, το τι θα πω... Με ευλάβεια! Ο Ωνάσης, ο Γαρουφαλίδης 

(σ.σ. ο γαμπρός του Αριστοτέλη Ωνάση)... [...] 

Με αγάπησαν πολλοί άνθρωποι, αλλά ίσως ήταν και ο χαρακτήρας μου που τους

 έκανε να με σεβαστούν. Ίσως γιατί ήταν παραλήδες, είχαν χρήματα πολλά, και 

επειδή είχα κι εγώ δεν τους έδινα σημασία», είχε δηλώσει στον Πέτρο Κωστόπουλο.

Ο Ωνάσης είχε πει πως έτρεμε όταν την φίλησε, ενώ ο Νιάρχος δεν μπορούσε

 να αντισταθεί στην γοητεία της.

Τα μυστικά ομορφιάς της -Ανεβαίνει 139 σκαλιά

Στη διατροφή και στο περπάτημα ορκίζεται η Ζωζώ Σαπουτζάκη, η οποία στα 83 

της πλέον κάνει πολλές γυναίκες να ζηλεύουν.

«Το ότι δεν κάθομαι ποτέ. Ακόμα και όταν δεν εργάζομαι θα βάλω τα αθλητικά 

μου και θα βγω στον δρόμο να περπατήσω. Κάνω υγιεινή ζωή. Δεν τρώω καθόλου

 μακαρόνια. Προτιμώ να τρώω φρούτα και λαχανικά και ψάρια που δυστυχώς

 τα στερούμαι όταν δεν είμαι στην Κινέττα», είχε αναφέρει σε συνέντευξή της στο 

περιοδικό ΟΚ.

«Μία φορά στο τόσο, θα φάω κανένα σοκολατάκι και κανένα λαδερό όπως τα

 γεμιστά της αδελφής μου που τα φτιάχνει υπέροχα, αλλά από τα δεκαεφτά μου

 χρόνια έχω μάθει να τρώω λίγο. Όταν ήμουν μικρή επειδή ήμουν λαίμαργη 

είχα κάποια παραπανίσια κιλά και έκανα τρέλες για να αδυνατίσω. Μπορεί

 δηλαδή να έτρωγα ένα φιλέτο το μεσημέρι με μία ντομάτα κομμένη στα τέσσερα

 και μέχρι που θα κοιμόμουν το βράδυ έτρωγα μόνο δύο μήλα», προσέθεσε.

Στο σπίτι της στην Κινέττα ακόμα και σήμερα ανεβοκατεβαίνει 139 σκαλοπάτια,

 μιας και δεν μπορεί απλά να κάθεται!

Η για πάντα νέα Ζωζώ Σαπουτζάκη σβήνει τα 83 της κεράκια, παραμένοντας

 πάντα κεφάτη και μοναδική.